IN BRIEF
What Small, private urban garden.
Where West London.
Size A rectangle of around 150 square metres (including a 25m-square basement courtyard).
Soil London clay soil enriched with good-quality topsoil.
Climate Temperate and south-facing.
Hardiness zone ISDA 9.
In the garden of this charming, stucco-fronted villa in London's fashionable Notting Hill, garden designer Butter Wakefield has combined her passions for design detail, sustainability and storied planting. The house was remodelled by architects Michaelis Boyd for a couple relocating from the USA, along with their four young children. The renovations included
